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A screenshot of Mariah during battle in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R

27.05.2022

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R coming this September

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has a long, rich history spanning manga, anime, live-action films, and video games. It started with the manga back in 1987; the manga is now going into its ninth arc! The story’s setting is a world similar to our own, but with supernatural forces. The next video game, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R, was announced during Sony’s March 10 State of Play, and now we’ve learned that the game will be released this September.…

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JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R coming this September

May 27, 2022

Bandai Namco/News

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has a long, rich history spanning manga, anime, live-action films, and video games. It started with the manga back in 1987; the manga is now going into its ninth arc! The story’s setting is a world similar to our own, but with supernatural forces. The next video…

NISA shares trailer for upcoming nightmare, Yomawari: Lost in the Dark

May 26, 2022

Horror/News/trailer

NISA is on to a good thing with the Yomawari series. These might look like humble little indie anime games, but they know how to throw an emotional and horrific gut punch and a half. The publisher has a third on the way later this year and has shared an…

Gadget Review: Corsair HS55 Stereo Headset

May 26, 2022

Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review

If you think of a Corsair HS55 as a general-purpose, all-day working and gaming tool, it’s hard to be disappointed by it. It’s certainly not a premium headset, but I can see so many uses for this, and indeed I find myself reaching for it more than any of the…

A “Wuxia-style pixel RPG” from China? Sign me up!

May 25, 2022

News/RPG/trailer

We’ve seen China grow rapidly as an international game development hub, and one of the most exciting things about that nations’ game development scene is that they seem to be every bit as enamoured with the RPG format as their neighbours in Japan. Codename: Wandering Sword is basically “what if…

A screenshot from Temtem. A trainer leads their Temtem across a bridge connecting floating islands. The tamer wears a skeleton costume.

Creature collection RPG Temtem set to leave Early Access for a full launch on consoles, PC

May 25, 2022

Indie/News

A massively multiplayer creature-collection adventure, Temtem has been in Early Access for over two years and it is finally time for a full launch. It’s similar to Pokémon in a lot of ways, but also has it’s own unique features and charm. The game is now nearly ready for its…

Subscription services are a detriment to the discoverability of art

May 24, 2022

Opinion/Xbox Game Pass

I don’t usually report on individual tweets, but one tweet from Xbox started off a storm of discourse today, and it got me thinking up some thought bubbles of my own. To get the lede out of the way: the assumption that many people have that subscription services are good…

Touken Ranbu Warriors DigitallyDownloaded.net Review

Review: Touken Ranbu Warriors (Nintendo Switch)

May 24, 2022

Koei Tecmo/Nintendo Switch/Reviews

Touken Ranbu is a game about pretty boys. Who are swords. And travel around time, Quantum Leap-style. I’ve got to be honest with you, if you had told me that at some point in my life I’d be playing an anime boys game whose closest direct comparison is an ‘80s…

Paper Ghost Stories: Third Eye Open is the first full-length game in the series, and it’s looking incredible

May 24, 2022

Chorus/News

If you haven’t played Paper Ghost Stories: 7PM yet, you absolutely must; as a bonus, it’s free to play on PC via Steam until June 2! It’s the first in the Paper Ghost Stories series, and a relatively quick play. The next game in the series was announced today. Titled…

A screenshot from Banchou Tactics. One team of two students battles one team of three students in the gymnasium.

Final Fantasy Tactics-inspired Banchou Tactics launching in 2023

May 24, 2022

FlyHigh Works/News

Turn-based strategy is great. These games are kind of like chess, as each player takes one turn by moving and using one character, then another character goes, and so on. Generally, there is no time limit on these moves, so you can really think through what you’re about to do.…

Review: Snow Bros. Special (Nintendo Switch)

May 23, 2022

Arcade/Nintendo Switch/Reviews

Before there was Bubble Bobble, there was Snow Bros., and the original remains the best. I should explain. Bubble Bobble did actually come first chronologically, but Snow Bros. (the “clone”) was the first single-screen platformer I personally played. Way back on the Game Boy, there was a shrunk-down version of…

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Reviews

Review: Touken Ranbu Warriors (Nintendo Switch)

May 24, 2022

Touken Ranbu is a game about pretty boys. Who are swords. And travel around time, Quantum Leap-style. I’ve got to be honest…

Review: Snow Bros. Special (Nintendo Switch)

May 23, 2022

Before there was Bubble Bobble, there was Snow Bros., and the original remains the best. I should explain. Bubble Bobble did actually…

Beach Girls: Don't Lie In Summer Nintendo eShop Review

Review: Beach Girls: Don’t Lie In Summer (Nintendo Switch)

May 20, 2022

And today’s eShop nasty is… Beach Girls: Don’t Lie In Summer! Like Hentai Uni and Waifu Impact before it, Beach Girls landed…

Otoko Cross: Pretty Boys Mahjong Solitaire PC Game Review

Review: Otoko Cross: Pretty Boys Mahjong Solitaire (PC)

May 19, 2022

Otoko Cross is basically a reskin of the Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire. There’s a Mahjong Solitaire grid there on the screen, and…

Videos

Seven Pirates H: The most fanservicey fan service of all

May 13, 2022

Seven Pirates H is Idea Factory’s latest fan service special and even by Idea Factory’s standards for fan service this one *goes…

Gameplay Stream: ANNO: Mutationem – Cyberpunk with pretty girls!

May 11, 2022

On the ongoing recommendation of one of the regulars on the DDNet stream, I am going to play a bit of ANNO…

Citizen Sleeper: Friday night anti-capitalism stream!

May 7, 2022

In case you missed the live stream, watch the catch-up here! Citizen Sleeper, which just released on Nintendo Switch this week, is…

Podcast-in-Video: NFTs in video games absolutely suck

May 6, 2022

We recorded this podcast just before Square Enix announced it was selling Tomb Raider and other critical properties in order to finance…

Interviews

On Touken Ranbu, making games for women (and by women), and Koei Tecmo’s industry leadership

May 17, 2022

Koei Tecmo has a reputation for producing games that go heavy on the fan service or sex themes – be that Dead…

On spending 1,600 hours making a JRPG epic using the Nintendo Switch

April 29, 2022

This week, an absolutely fascinating story landed on my feet. Someone had spent 1,600 hours plugging away at RPG Maker MV on…

On bringing Chrono Cross back: Developer Q & A

April 12, 2022

Chrono Cross is one of the all-time great JRPGs. It was recently re-released as the Radical Dreamers Edition on PlayStation 4 and…

A quick Q & A with the developers of King of Fighters XV

March 9, 2022

Interview by Matt S. The most recent instalment in the King of Fighters series, KoF:XV, launched not too long ago. We thought…

Gadgets

by Matt

May 26, 2022

Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review

Gadget Review: Corsair HS55 Stereo Headset

If you think of a Corsair HS55 as a general-purpose, all-day working and gaming tool, it’s hard to be disappointed by it. It’s certainly not a premium headset, but I can see so many uses for this, and indeed I find myself reaching for it more than any of the other headsets I have floating around, thanks to its focus…

Gadget/Hardware/Hardware Review

Gadget Review: Maonocaster E2 A

Maono is very much a new kid on the block. This Chinese-based sound equipment manufacturer only began operations back in 2014, but if the Maonocaster E2 A is anything to go by, this company is going to turn some heads. With this incredibly affordable, robust, and versatile combination of production…

Gadget Review: SteelSeries Aerox 9 Wireless

I sat down to review the SteelSeries Aerox 9 Wireless with some…

Gadget Review: The A500 Mini

In 2022, the view of retro gaming is almost always tilted towards…